Nexus Features | Sonatype

Control and approve artifacts from remote repositories and create "clean-room" production repositories with approved software artifacts.

Artifact Procurement

Control and approve artifacts from remote repositories and create "clean-room" production repositories with approved software artifacts.

Searching Repositories

Sonatype's Nexus Repository Manager allows you to search for artifacts: by GAV (GroupID, ArtifactId, Version) Coordinates, by Class Name or a Class Name Pattern, or by Checksum

Eclipse P2 Repositories

 Simplify setup and manage a standard Eclipse development environment by proxying and grouping Eclipse update sites.

Hosted Repositories

In less than four minutes, you'll be up and running with the most capable repository manager on the market.

Advanced LDAP

Integrate with enterprise security systems and reuse existing user and group structures from an LDAP server using intelligent mapping of existing user and group structures to Nexus roles.

Repository Mirror Support

Configure Nexus to download artifacts and POMs from a remote repository mirrors. Using the Nexus UI, you can also configure a list of mirror URLs for a hosted repository. For each proxy repository, Nexus is now able to be configured with an ordered list of URLs to use as mirrors of the remote repository.

Opensearch Integration

Easily locate and search for artifacts in a Nexus repository using the native search capabilities of a web browser.

Proxy Repositories

Create intelligent proxies of remote repositories with proxy repository type.

Settings Templates

Manage and distribute M2 settings to developers with the Nexus Maven plugin.

Nexus Pro Features

Nexus Testimonials

"2008 saw the emergence of a new leader in this field, in the form of Nexus. Nexus is easy to use and configure, making administration of a Maven repository a real pleasure."
John Ferguson Smart, JavaWorld.com, 12/27/08

"The documentation is excellent and the application is very intuitive. This team repository greatly increases our team productivity. Thank you so much"
Luke Bishop from Sonatype blog comments 1/7/2009.

"At Intuit, we recognize that as builds grow and the teams who create them change over time, swift, accurate repository management becomes critical. Nexus provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use open source solution that lets teams and developers track, search, organize and access build components."
Kaizer Sogiawala, Software Configuration Management Engineer, Intuit.

"We have adopted Maven for all our software development projects and have started using Nexus to better support our development processes. The support for promotion and procurement workflows in Nexus Professional now expands Nexus with a robust set of additional features which make it easier for us to maintain consistency between our development, testing and production environments."
Chris Maki, Principal Software Engineer, Overstock.com

"We have adopted Nexus Professional to better manage not only our own repositories but also the depending repositories on the net. And with the support for Staging and Artifact procurement we have more controle over the artifacts produced and used by Marvelution projects. Another nice feature is the Maven Settings templates, it allows users to configure the repositories easier and quicker. Overall Nexus is the perfect platform to manage all your required repositories, being hosted or proxied, it is easy to use and allows for fast searching and uploading of artifacts."
Mark Rekveld, Marvelution